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George Koltanowski
Koltanowski c. 1975
Country
Belgium, United States
Born
(1903-09-17)17 September 1903 Antwerp, Belgium
Died
5 February 2000(2000-02-05) (aged 96)
Title
International Master (1950) Grandmaster (honorary, 1988)
George Koltanowski (also "Georges"; 17 September 1903 – 5 February 2000) was a Belgian-born American chess player, promoter, and writer. He was informally known as "Kolty". Koltanowski set the world's blindfold record on 20 September 1937, in Edinburgh, by playing 34 chess games simultaneously while blindfolded, making headline news around the world. He also set a record in 1960 for playing 56 consecutive blindfold games at ten seconds per move.
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Grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky and also played against GeorgeKoltanowski in San Francisco in 1952 (Koltanowski played blindfolded but still won in 41 moves)....
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paired with the Swiss system. The chief director of that event was GeorgeKoltanowski. Currently the highest-ranking member is Grandmaster Alexander Shabalov...
International Master GeorgeKoltanowski, who remained faithful to it throughout his long career, and wrote several books on it. Koltanowski said he played the...
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generous, friendly, encouraging and kind he was." International Master GeorgeKoltanowski said of Spann: "He was the heart and soul of American chess." Spann...
column by the same author, the previous record having been set by GeorgeKoltanowski in the San Francisco Chronicle: 51 years, 9 months, and 18 days, including...
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